Patent GB-468988-A (GB)
Title: Admission ticket checking and dispensing apparatus
IPC: G07B11/09
Filed: 1936-05-13
Abstract: 468,988. Ticket-cancelling machines. ROEDELS, G. D. May 13, 1936, No. 13579. Convention date, April 15, 1936. [A Specification was laid open to inspection under Sect. 91 of the Acts, Nov. 16, 1936.] [Class 106 (iii)] In a machine for cancelling theatre tickets, means are provided for feeding a strip of tickets into the machine, and means for punching out a portion of each ticket to form a coupon. storing for checking the remainder of the ticket, and issuing said coupon to the patron. Means are also provided for timing the intake of a ticket, and for accurately positioning the tickets for printing thereon. A series of ticket storage receptacles are provided which are selectively positioned by hand, an automatic signal indicating when a receptacle is full. The ticket strip is introduced through a slot 56, and its path is obstructed by abutments 57 adapted to be withdrawn at the proper moment in the cycle of operations by means of a cam 58 on a shaft 59 driven from the electric motor 23 which drives also the feed brushes 37, 38, 39 and their co-operating rollers 34, 35, 36. When the abutments 57 are raised, the brush 37 is raised out of contact with its roller 34 by mechanism operated by the same cam 58, so that another ticket may not be inserted at the wrong moment. When the ticket strip meets a stop slide 86, a knife 83 is raised by means of a cam 85 to sever the ticket, and upon depression of the stop 86 by means of a cam 88, the ticket is fed into one of the radial slots 89 in a transfer wheel 90. This wheel is intermittently rotated by Geneva wheel mechanism, and when it is at rest a vertically reciprocating slide 105 causes a slide 116 to move inwardly to engage against the end the ticket in the slot 89 opposite thereto, so as to position the ticket in the slot. A die 253 operated by the slide 105 now severs a coupon 265, Fig. 18, from the ticket T, Fig. 17, the coupon falling on a travelling band 256 which carries them to a receptacle 257 for issue to the patron. The transfer wheel is next moved to bring the remaining portion of the ticket beneath the number-printing device 123 which is reciprocated by the slide 105 and is provided with a plunger 124 adapted to advance the number wheels when it engages a plate 130 on the descent. Should no ticket be present in the slot of the transfer wheel, a lever end 127, which normally bears against the end of a ticket, moves inwardly and causes an aperture 131 in the plate 130 to register with the plunger 124 so that the number wheels will not be advanced. An ink pad for the numbering wheels is mounted on a pivoted arm rocked by the slide 105. The transfer wheel is next moved so that the ticket is positioned over a receptacle 134, and when the slide 105 again moves down, the ticket is pushed downwards into the receptacle by an ejecting member 135. When the receptacle 134 is full, the tickets close a switch 142 to operate a lamp signal 140, whereupon the attendant rotates a handle 147 to slide the row of receptacles 134 along a track 145 so as to bring another into position. The slide 105 may be positioned at a point diametrically opposite the ticket-feeding mechanism 250. Specification 420,003 is referred to.